Yeung-ping Chen is a Hong Kong-born composer who has received musical education from St. Bonaventure College and High School, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). His studies have been guided by notable mentors such as Alfonso Wong, Christopher Coleman, Law Wing-fai, Clarence Mak, Katharina Rosenberger, Roger Reynolds, Philippe Manoury, Rand Steiger, and Lei Liang. 

The recipient of the Asian Cultural Council’s Altius Fellowship, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund, and CASH’s Music Scholarship, Chen was named a finalist for the Rivers Awards Competition in Shanghai and has received commissions from Steven Schick and La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, Bard Conservatory of Music, Macau Band Directors Association, the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonic, Musicus Society, L'Ensemble Télémaque, and many others. 

Chen was also a composer-fellow for the Ensemble 2010 Project at Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD), the International Ensemble Modern Academy in 2011, June in Buffalo 2012, Manhattan Hong Kong Music Festival 2012, the Northwestern University New Music Conference (NUNC! 2014), the NEC’s Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SCIPP 2014), the Asian Composers League (ACL Taipei) in 2018, the China-ASEAN Music Festival (Nanning) in 2019, Shanghai Contemporary Music Festival (originally Shanghai New Music Week) in 2008, 2019, and 2024, Beijing Modern Music Festival in 2025, and worked with Marino Formenti, Christopher Rountree, Steve Schick, Jeffrey Milarsky, Johnny M. Poon, Jin Yukuang, Raoul Lay, Dedric Wong, Matt Kline, Scott Paulson, Viola Yip, Sara Perez, Rachel Beetz, Ine Vanoeveren, Paul Hembree, Kyle Johnson, Michael Matsuno, Alice Teyssier, Jessica Azordi, UMS n’ JIP, James Cuddefold, Jan Söderblom, Yuki Numata, Wong Tak Chiu, Ruan Mingyuan, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Red Fish Blus Fish, Ding Yi Music Company, Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Ensemble Modern (IEMA), Hong Kong Sinfonietta, JACK Quartet, Ulysses Quartet, Cong Quartet, Mivos Quartet, Novus-Classica Camerata, the Radnofsky Saxophone Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Groove Wind Quintet, Rhythmaker, L'Ensemble Télémaque, and Tactus Ensemble. 

Chen is currently Associate Professor at the School of Music at the South China Normal University (SCNU) where he curated various academic exchange and research projects, including a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary exchange project called “Ink Art and New Music” supported by ACC, HKU MUSE, M+, and Bard’s US-China Music Institute. Chen also served Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) as Programme Coordinator and Guest Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Design in the summer of 2023. Chen is currently the Director of Council of the Hong Kong Composers' Guild (HKCG). 

Chen respectively launched a research project, "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Composers and Compositional Research Network" in 2022 and a multi-dimensional platform, “South China Contemporary Creative” and its music institute (SCCCMI) in 2025. These two initiatives aim to curate professional connections among composers and researchers in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao, as well as to explore, investigate, cultivate, and promote the original sounds of the region. 

Chen’s compositions are published and distributed by Universal Edition AG.

John Moran has often been called the protege of composer Philip Glass.  In 2003, Glass was quoted as saying "I am convinced that there is no more important composer working today, than John Moran."  His strange and impossible to describe works of music-theater have featured performers such as Iggy Pop, Uma Thurman, Allen Ginsberg and Julia Stiles.  The Boston Globe has written, "Moran is a modern day Mozart", and TimeOut has called him "One of the leading figures in the avantgarde."

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